Author Archives: Sue Challis
Paola’s Dance
A short piece made with Paola Alessandro at my ‘In Disguise’ residency at The Hive Arts Centre, Shrewsbury – part of an exploration of identity – 2005
Impact Arts !
Following two years of documentary video-making with the Changes Consultancy’s Home Office project ‘Active Citizenship’ I was asked to help a group of ten South Asian and Black Country women write a successful £23,000 Arts Council bid for a 12 … Continue reading
Reading Agatha Christie (2007)
Reading Agatha Christie (2007) was made with a group of Iraqi Kurdish refugees in Birmingham. It shows a number of ‘Middle Eastern’ people trying to read from Christie’s ‘They Came to Baghdad’ in Arabic in a film clearly made for … Continue reading
Ahmet’s Bricks (2010) – exploring place, displacement and nostalgia for home
The Aman Arts Project 2010
Working closely with Shahida Choudhry (Women’s Networking Hub) and the Muslim Women’s Network, I coordinated and delivered two projects at the Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham. The project aims to give a voice to unheard voices: ‘hard-to-reach’ women previously inexperienced … Continue reading
